11. Speed Force
"I fantasized about the day when I could end the war on my own and bring peace to the world. ”
On the top floor of the living Metropolitan Museum, there is a cubicle, a secret that belongs to the curator himself, and no one knows about it except her... Now there's a second person.
Cyber sat in a chair with a glass of wine in his hand, and Diana sat across from him, drunk, with a lady's cigarette in her hand, and in the smoke there was a shocking beauty.
Time has not left a trace on this woman, but Cyber can see that she already has a heart, and it is a beautiful relationship that she holds on to in her heart... Maybe it's love.
In short, no one can enter her heart anymore.
So what Cyber does is just appreciation, that's all, it's like when we see a flower in the garden, even if we don't pick it, we will feel happy, and this is what beautiful things can give us, far beyond the emotions that physical passion can give.
It's also the best part of the emotion, so he chooses to be a listener.
"But it's stupid, after I left my homeland and joined the mortal wars, I saw the dark power reaching out from within them. ”
Diana looked at Cyber and raised the wine glass in her hand, and the latter also raised the glass slightly, and saw Diana drink the glass of wine, smiled, and whispered:
"This is always true of mortals, and this is true of every mortal I have ever seen, the belligerence and destruction hidden in the blood always drive them to war after war, I killed the last god of war, I inherited his authority, but... I hate war. ”
She looked at Cyber:
"Can you understand the feeling?"
Cyber nodded, and said with some regret:
"Of course, I feel like we're like crickets in a cage, frantically trying to defeat our opponents, not knowing why, and not needing to know why, like there's an invisible hand pushing us to do this, frantically throwing bombs on top of other people's heads, crowding out people who are different from us... It's stupid. ”
He drank the wine from his cup in one gulp, and whispered:
"But that's what we're human beings with, and we wouldn't exist without these things that you hate, and I'm a Darwinian proponent! You know? There's only one truth I believe!"
Cyber propped his chin in his hands, looked at Diana, and said solemnly:
"But those who can survive these remnants are qualified to continue to live, natural selection, survival of the fittest, and being eliminated, it can only show that we are nothing more than that. ”
"Interesting theory. ”
Diana extinguished the cigarette butt in her ashtray, she breathed a long sigh of relief, looked up at the starry sky above her head, and continued:
"But then I found out... After the death of the person I loved, I suddenly realized that it is impossible to change everything as a hero, and that human beings must be in charge of their own destiny, both in life and in death, and I think this is probably the reason why I can live peacefully with the Supreme Mage... We are all observers, like eternity who observe the changes in the world in time. ”
"The world is changing, but we don't change, and after something that shouldn't appear, we may reach out and pull it out, in short, I rarely join the human war now, and those things are meaningless. ”
She looked at Cyber:
"But I'm curious, no matter what era you are, people like you are no longer mortals, why do you still call yourself mortals, why do you still stay with them, are you really for those mutants?"
Cyber shrugged:
"It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the answer I'm looking for, but if you're really curious, I can tell you that no! ”
"Hahahaha"
Diana laughed exaggeratedly, as if Cyber had told a very funny joke, she laughed for 2 minutes, and finally took a deep breath, her intoxicated eyes became calm again at this moment, she looked at Cyber, and said meaningfully:
"Acting like you don't want anything, don't care about anything, and then use this way to protect what you cherish? Wise to do. ”
She stretched out a finger, tapped it on the table in front of her, and coughed lightly:
"Okay, let's talk about your trouble, you met two speeders, right? I heard about this from Kama Taj, a warrior like you should understand a truth, if you want to defeat someone, you have to understand him first, so, do you know those two speeders?"
"No!"
Cyber shook his head and told the truth, "One of them and I are friends who are easier to deal with, but I don't know anything about the other, I just know that there is a special force wrapped around their bodies that makes them look like ..."
"Light! a light that runs in a straight line, right?"
Diana said the phenomenon before Cyber could announce the answer, and Cyber glanced at her and nodded:
"That's right, it's light, my fist can't even touch their bodies, so there's no need to talk about defeating, and the ancient one gave me another task that must be completed, which gave me a headache. ”
"Then why don't you refuse?"
Diana looked at Cyber curiously: "You don't look like the kind of person who would easily accept other people's requests. ”
Faced with this question, Cyber pouted:
"Because I owe the great Supreme Master a favor, I don't like to owe things, really. ”
"Oh~~~"
Diana let out a strange exclamation, her pretty eyes blinking, "Then it seems that your favor is really valuable, so you owe me a favor now, because I will tell you how to deal with those speedsters." ”
"I'm listening..."
Seber propped her chin and waited for Diana's next words, and as soon as the latter reached out, a book fell into her hand from the nearby shelf, and she turned a few pages of the quaint book, spread it out, laid it on the table, and handed it to Seber:
"Hermes, the messenger of Zeus in Greek mythology, it is said that he can travel through every corner of the world in the blink of an eye, but what I want to tell you is that through the appearance of the myth, as far as I know, Hermes is actually the first speedster to appear in this world!"
She poured herself a glass of wine and whispered:
"When I was a child, my mother, Queen Hippolyta, would tell me these myths, and of course, I didn't know that I had the blood of the king of the gods in my veins, and she told me that Hermes was like the most brilliant light when he ran with all his might, and when you saw it, he was already thousands of miles away. ”
"My mother's sister, my aunt, the chief of the warrior Antiope, was more rational, and when she taught me martial arts, she told me that the power of Hermes was actually the manifestation of the fundamental power of the origin of the universe, and we have a special word to describe it. ”
"What?"
Cyber put down the book in his hand and looked up at Diana, who whispered:
One of the dimensions of the universe and the wall of time, the kind of power you see is the manifestation of the speed force, after it chooses a certain carrier, it will bring unparalleled speed to this carrier, just like light, just like lightning, and the carrier will become the fastest person in a certain dimension. ”
Diana paused and accentuated her tone:
"They can even be faster than time! Time can no longer bind them, and they will become beings comparable to gods, but beware... This is derived from the speed force, not from the carrier itself, do you know how the ancient one killed Hermes, the holder of the speed force, when he destroyed Mount Olympus?"
Seber shook his head, and Diana stretched out her hands and gestured in a cutting gesture:
"She used her great power to forcibly construct another small space, trapped Hermes in it, and cut off his connection to the speed force, so that the lightning-fast Hermes weakened, and finally failed to escape the judgment of the Ancient One... But you can't use this method, as far as I know, it was also forcibly done by the ancient one relying on the power of the Time Stone. ”
"So, for you... You'll have to do it another way. ”
Diana stood up and jumped lightly to the window, contrasting the moonlight outside the window, the wind blowing her hair, very beautiful, she looked back at Seber:
"Weaken the opponent's speed force, this thing is like a battery invented by human beings, the speed force that each carrier can hold at the same time is limited, if you take some, his speed will slow down, if you take it all, he is no different from ordinary people, but you must first find a carrier of speed force..."
Cyber's eyes flashed, and he hesitated and asked:
"What conditions do you need to meet for the carrier?"
"Frankly, I don't know about that. But if you have to say it, the way God Speed Force chooses the carrier has always been very mysterious, but it is not without a trace, it seems to favor those who are extremely fast in a certain aspect, such as the body is very good at running, such as the speed of thinking is extremely fast, such as the speed of metabolism, etc., but this is not necessarily. ”
Diana showed a helpless smile:
"Divine speed force is one of the mysterious forces in the universe, even my god ancestors have not been able to study more information, but looking at your appearance, you seem to have a candidate?"
"Yes!"
Cyber nodded: "I don't need to hide it from you, I do have a candidate, but how can I draw out the opponent's speed? You see, I can't catch him, can I?"
"Use this!"
Diana jumped off the windowsill, walked to her locker, reached out from it, took out a quaint cane, put it in her hand and waved:
"The relics of Hermes, the twin staff of the twin snakes, one of the embodiment of the concept of speed in mythology, because of long-term contact with the speed force, it has become a container that can store the speed force, and with the energy drawing magic that can be used by any archmage, the speed force of the holder within 300 feet can be absorbed into the scepter, but I want to warn you!"
Diana's expression became serious:
"Be in awe of power, if you find a carrier that is not recognized by the speed force, he will die a miserable death, and maybe you will be implicated. ”
Cyber stretched out his hand, and the moment he touched the quaint scepter, Diana's hand suddenly shrank back, and she looked at Cyber playfully:
"Did you forget something?"
The latter looked at her and asked in a hesitant whisper, "Then what is your trouble?"
"Ares!"
Diana gritted her teeth and said, "That haunting guy is plotting a plot against my hometown, I can't find him, but you seem to have news of him..."
As she spoke, Princess Diana stuffed the scepter in her hand into Cyber's palm: "You owe me a favor now, so help me find him!"
"Just to find him?"
Cyber shook the cane in his hand and looked up at Diana, "Don't need me to fight?"
"No, you don't!"
Diana waved her hand and said confidently: "If I can kill him once, I can naturally kill him a second time, and mortals can't do anything in the face of him... Only God can kill God. ”
"Good!"
Without much hesitation, Cyber nodded in agreement, he put the scepter into the space of his sandalwood fan, and he looked up at Diana:
"I'll find his servant as soon as I can, for the sake of your strange rope, I don't think it's much of a problem to find Ares himself. ”
"Then it's a certainty... You can go, Mr. Cyber, a lady is going to sleep, and I'll wait for your good news!"